Elements of Leadership
Lessons from Avatar the Last Airbender
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Leadership literature is dominated by Western paradigms, but what about the lessons of leadership from a cross-cultural perspective?
In this highly readable volume, Sy Islam and Gordon B. Schmidt utilise examples from Avatar: The Last Airbender to bring this unique lens of perspective to a range of leadership behaviour themes. The chapters offer research and evidence-based advice on how to improve as a leader on topics such as ethics, balance, power, cross-cultural leadership, female leadership, succession planning, organizational memory, leadership development, mentorship, and creativity. A focus on leadership helps the reader to see that regardless of their current position or role, they can engage in leadership and have impact, whether a current leader or not. Elements of Leadership connects concepts from the franchise to uncover what the reader can achieve within their own leadership process.
Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
Chapter 1. The Elements of Being a Great Avatar and Leader
- Chapter 2. The Importance of Balance to Leadership?
- Chapter 3. The Avatar Must Consider the Needs of All: Ethics and Power of Being the Avatar
- Chapter 4. No Tribe can Succeed on Their Own: The Importance of Cross-cultural Leadership
- Chapter 5. Benders (and Leaders) Come in All Genders: Implicit Theories of Leadership and How to Support Leaders of All Genders
- Chapter 6. It is Your Destiny! The Impact of Organizational Memory and Succession Planning on Leadership
- Chapter 7. You May Be the Avatar, but Are you Ready? The Importance of Leadership Development and Growth
- Chapter 8. Patience, My Boy: The Importance of Mentorship to Leaders
- Chapter 9. There is Not Just One Way to Do Things: Fostering Creativity like the Earth Kingdom of Omashu
- Chapter 10. You Have Completed Your Training Young Bender: How You Can Become the Avatar Leader Your Own Organization and Life Needs
Sy Islam is a Co-Founder and Vice President of Consulting with Talent Metrics and Associate Professor of Industrial Organizational Psychology at Farmingdale State College, USA.
Gordon B. Schmidt is Professor of Management and the Director of the Turrentine School of Management at the University of Louisiana Monroe, USA.